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Impacts on Food Production in a World Plagued by Covid-19 | Kevin Ladwig

April 17, 2020

Summary

Kevin leads MSAB Capital, a corporate venture fund of Johnsonville Holdings, investing in early stage companies in life sciences and emerging technologies. Prior to leading MSAB Capital, Kevin spent 30 years at Johnsonville Sausage in various technical and business functions including Research & Development, Food Safety & Quality, Procurement, Crisis Management and Business Development.

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How the Invention of the Knauer Caliper for Sow Body Condition Scoring Transformed Animal Well-Being | Dr. Mark Knauer

April 17, 2020

Summary

Dr. Mark Knauer was born and raised on a pure-line pig and cattle operation in southern Wisconsin. He received his B.S. in agriculture education and M.S. in animal breeding at Iowa State University. Following his time at ISU, Mark completed his PhD in animal breeding and genetics at North Carolina State University.

After graduating, Mark completed a short Postdoc at the Institute for Pig Genetics in the Netherlands before accepting a position with the National Pork Board as the Director of Animal Science. Dr. Knauer is currently a swine extension specialist at North Carolina State University where he focuses on genetics and production management.

  1. “We have sold sow calipers to 34 countries throughout the world from my little office here in North Carolina, and all of those sales have been word of mouth.”
  2. “If you are in the barn and you see a sow that is thin, you need to go investigate why that might be.”
  3. “Body conditioning can be used as a tool to help identify sows that have issues and then allow us to further troubleshoot what is really going on.”
  4. “When it comes to training potential stockmen, some of these skills take time and they do not develop overnight. Within those people that you are training, you have to have someone that has a passion for animal care and a deep desire to know what to look for.”
  5. “Having designated treatment stalls/pens within sow farms, combined with improved stockmanship and we will be headed in the right direction in helping reduce our sow mortality.”

What you can expect to learn from this episode of Popular Pig

  • You will learn about Dr. Mark Knauer’s background
  • You will get a detailed perspective of how to properly manage a sows body condition
  • You will hear the founding story of the Knauer Caliper

For more information, please visit : The sow body condition caliper, a paradigm change in sow management

30 Years in the Rear View Mirror and What Lies Ahead | Dr. Tyler Holck

April 7, 2020

Summary

Dr. Tyler Holck has extensive leadership and project management experience dedicated to food animal production, primarily the pork industry, with both large international and small entrepreneurial corporations. Some of which include Boehringer Ingelheim, Novartis Animal Health, NOBL Laboratories, and Iowa State University.

Top Quotes from Dr. Tyler Holck

  1. “Unfortunately, whether we are talking about pre-wean or post-wean mortality, we really haven’t moved the dial on mortality since 1988.”
  2. “We will be moving into the individual era of animal care soon. The technologies that manage data gathering that can be more automated, data that can be shared, and data that creates traceability from birth to market are going to be successful.”
  3. The staff that we are going to need to motivate are going to want to be using their technology on farms and not just at home. We have to figure out how to do Wi-Fi and allow for connected devices.”
  4. “Success, I would argue for my entire career, in the US swine industry has always been driven around cost, and I think that paradigm has to shift from cost to quality.”
  • You will get to meet and hear about Dr. Tyler Holck’s background and journey
  • How the swine industry has evolved over the past 30 years
  • How will we use our past to craft a better future
  • What does success in the swine industry look like today and how it has changed over time
  • Dr. Tyler Holck’s “Golden Nugget”

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March 24, 2020

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